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PARENTAL EFFICACY AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR: DO CONTROL AND SUPPORT MATTER?
Author(s) -
WRIGHT JOHN PAUL,
CULLEN FRANCIS T.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00937.x
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , national longitudinal surveys , psychology , longitudinal data , parental monitoring , control (management) , developmental psychology , parental control , survey data collection , sample (material) , social psychology , demographic economics , demography , sociology , computer science , economics , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , chemistry , chromatography
Recently, the concept of “collective efficacy” has been advanced to understand how communities exert control and provide support to reduce crime. In a similar way, we use the concept of “parental efficacy” to highlight the crime reducing effects associated with parents who support and control their youth. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we examine the inter‐relationship between parental controls and supports and their joint influence on youthful misbehavior. The results show that (1) support and control are intertwined, and (2) that parental efficacy exerts substantive effects on adolescent delinquency for the sample as a whole and across varying age groups.